A'la Hazrat was a māturīdī, as are all Hanafīs. but it should be noted that the two schools differ only in peripheral matters; their basic creedal axioms are identical. ---------- for example, tāj alDīn alSubkī - the father of taqī alDīn alSubkī - commented that the TaHawiyyah was a creed for both ash'arīs and māturīdīs; with a limited number of points of difference*. ghunaymī in his commentary on the TaHawiyyah briefly touches on this in the introduction. ---------- * the difference is in delivery and not necessarily in validity. the first few discussions in qārī's SharH Fiqh Akbar make for a good primer for anyone new to this field of kalām. Allāh knows best
